Tim Merricks

Fabrizio Cammarata, The Sebright Arms, London, 29th May 2019

June 17, 2019 Tim Merricks 0

There was something ill fitting about Fabrizio Cammarata and his Euro entourage holed up deep within the vaults of this back alley retreat for beatnutz and shoegazers that is the Sebright Arms, way out in the […]

Sunday Morning “Four” (Bronson Recordings, 2019)

June 7, 2019 Tim Merricks 0

Following on from the release of Sicilian Fabrizio Cammarata’s critically acclaimed ‘Lights’, the Italian Americana (is that a coffee?) theme is continued by Sunday Morning, who returned with a new line-up in 2015 after eight years […]

Ordinary Elephant “Honest” (Independent, 2019)

May 30, 2019 Tim Merricks 0

One thing that should be made clear from the outset about ‘Honest’ is that there is not a weak track on the album. This is only partly down to the strength of the material – a […]

David Quinn “Wanderin’ Fool” (Independent, 2019)

May 22, 2019 Tim Merricks 0

“Chicago cosmic country!” thus David Quinn is introduced via the gimmick weary world of the media press release. The resulting introduction into the life of this travelling proponent of country rock tells a different story. From […]

Fabrizio Cammarata “Lights” (800A Records, 2019)

April 10, 2019 Tim Merricks 0

Fabrizio Cammarata, from Palermo, Sicily is not a well-known name on the UK circuit. It’s an outdated inequity that our continental neighbours are not given the attention here that our American cousins enjoy when it comes […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

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While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Videos

Video Premiere: Brent Amaker DeathSquad “Man in Charge”

June 10, 2020 0

We are delighted to share the video premiere for the atmospheric ‘Man in Charge’ from Brent Amaker DeathSquad, a sister act to Seattle’s Brent Amaker & The Rodeo. The orginal version of the song, by The […]

Album Reviews

Yonder Boys “Acid Folk”

August 3, 2021 0

Bluegrass roots with echoes of Darlingside harmonies in promising debut from Berlin-based trio. ‘Acid Folk’ is the debut album from Berlin-based trio ‘Yonder Boys’, and its genre-stretching musical aspirations match the geographical spread of its members, […]

Album Reviews

Ruen Brothers “Ten Paces”

July 3, 2023 0

The sound of young Scunthorpe: Brandon Flowers scoring John Ford movies. Ruen Brothers are siblings Rupert and Henry Stanshall (see what they did there?) who have just released their third LP ‘Ten Paces’. There are so […]

Articles by Tim Merricks

Fabrizio Cammarata, The Sebright Arms, London, 29th May 2019

Sunday Morning “Four” (Bronson Recordings, 2019)

Ordinary Elephant “Honest” (Independent, 2019)

David Quinn “Wanderin’ Fool” (Independent, 2019)

Fabrizio Cammarata “Lights” (800A Records, 2019)

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”